Waiting For Monday

The highlight of our day is getting Alina. We usually spend most of the day in the apartment. It is freezing outside. We have to seriously bundle up when we go out. Good advice about the layers.


We have fun cooking together. Alina tells us her favorite foods and Lena and I do our best to cook it. Lena and Alina are best buds. Poor Sara. We worried this might happen.

Alina's favorite salad. It's actually pretty good.

Alina likes to help, but we have to teach her everything. She has never even used a cheese grater. I forgot how much I had to teach the girls. It is amazing how far they have come.
Sara and I trying to light our gas oven. Lena ran. She was afraid we were going to blow her up. Christy gave us advice via Skype. She stayed in this apartment before. Thanks Christy! It was a success.

The girls draw and paint. Alina loves to show me her art work. I tell her good job and give her a hug. I know when she wants a hug because she stands in front of me and smiles. She smiles even bigger when I realize and hug her.
This is for Mom R. That nasty smelling tube stuff. It smells even worse than I remember. Sara won't touch it now, but Alina and Lena love it.

Alina is always cold. We took her to buy gloves and a sweater or sweatshirt at the outside market. I thought she was like Lena and would pick out some fashionable sweater. Nope she picked out a pink dragon sweatshirt. It is pretty hilarious. She was so excited about it we couldn't resist. We had her pegged wrong.